Making this mille feuille cake recipe is a fun baking project with kids: let them pipe cream balls and decorate the cake with edible flowers.The cake was decorated with fondant and decorated with a chocolate spider web design on top. The first recipe for a Millefeuille was published in François Pierre La Varenne's cookbook in 1651. The top is usually sprinkled with icing sugar. It is made with three layers of buttery puff pastry filled with rich custard pastry cream. The term mille-feuille is also French and means 'one thousand petals' or 'one thousand sheets,' referring to pastry layering in the dessert.
Classic mille-feuille (pronounced meel-foy) is a classic French pastry.
